Kerouac y La Generacion Beat

Julio Ligorría analiza y proyecta en Guatemala frente al espejo a un país multilingüe y pluricultural, regido por una constitución que lo enmarca en el modelo republicano, de estructura económica industrial, que sobrevivió a la descomposición social de un conflicto interno de 36 años caracterizado por una ubicación geoestratégica privilegiada, en tanto colinda con NAFTA y dista tres horas de vuelo de Estados Unidos. Ligorría señala que la movilidad humana es apresurada, mientras que la socioeconómica es sumamente lenta. En Guatemala frente al espejo, Julio Ligorría da su visión ...

La residencia presidencial de puertas adentro, a través de este pormenorizado relato de quien fue la primera dama durante ocho años. La política y los acontecimientos que signaron este período, y la vida cotidiana contada desde un punto de vista privilegiado.

Las hijas de Juan shatters the silence surrounding experiences of incest within a working-class Mexican American family. Both a feminist memoir and a hopeful meditation on healing, it is Josie Méndez-Negrete’s story of how she and her siblings and mother survived years of violence and sexual abuse at the hands of her father. Méndez-Negrete was born in Mexico, in the state of Zacatecas. She recalls a joyous childhood growing up in the midst of Tabasco, a vibrant town filled with extended family. Her father, though, had dreams of acquiring wealth in el norte. He worked sun-up to sun-down in ...

Annie Smith Peck is one of the most accomplished women of the twentieth century that you have never heard of. Peck was a scholar, educator, writer, lecturer, mountain climber, suffragist, and political activist. She was a feminist and an independent thinker who refused to let gender stereotypes stand in her way. Peck gained fame in 1895 when she first climbed the Matterhorn at the age of forty-five – not for her daring alpine feat, but because she climbed wearing pants. Fifteen years later, she was the first climber ever to conquer Mount Huascarán (21,831 feet) in Peru. In 1911, just...